I have a BCM5974 touchpad device which gets loaded incorrectly by Xorg despite being seemingly correctly configured. I have a simple /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-synaptics.conf file:
Section "InputClass"
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I have a macbook with yosemite installed, and I just added a partition of arch linux that I boot into using rEFInd. Arch was giving me an error because rEFInd boots by default using a "ro" parameter ...

I have an old iPod classic (2006 model, I believe) and I recently built my own computer, thus transitioning away from my old iMac and moving onto my own Fedora 21 desktop.
Despite my negative opinion ...

I have installed mint on my 2010 mbp and managed to mess up the .profile so now I can't log in to mint. I would like to access safe mode to edit the .profile file but I cannot for the life of me get ...

When I insert a FAT thumb drive in a USB port it automagicly mounts. When I do the same thing with a thumb drive from a Mac system it does not show up in my file manager.
How do I mount a Mac thumb ...

I have a mid 2009 Macbook Pro that I am trying to dual boot OS X and Kali Linux on. I replaced my optic drive with my old HDD and replaced my HDD with an SSD. OS X and my apps are running off of the ...

I would like to access iCloud drive from Terminal in order to create an emergency backup. Unfortunately, my installation of Mac OS Yosemite is not operational, so I am using recovery mode to create my ...

I have some problems involving a Macbook Pro Mid 2009 13" (MacBookPro5,5) running a Debian 7,7 Whezzy and a LCD screen Benq E2200HD.
I am using a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter in order to use the ...

I cannot boot Ubuntu from my macbook. I have tried the official Ubuntu walkthrough for creating a USB boot stick (located here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx ) ...

I am running Ubuntu 14.04, with 3.13.0-38-generic kernel on a MacBookPro11,2. (late 2013)
I'm trying to get the process ids of all chromium-browser processes, a bit selectively such as only renderers ...

I have a Macbook Pro that I believe is from 2008. It's harddrive is completely wiped and formatted (FAT32 if I remember correctly) with the only exception of a working installation of rEFIt. Not even ...

I've got myself a new Macbook last week but I just can't get used to OSX and would like to use a Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora installation as Main OS. I have installed Fedora without a bootloader as the ...

This seems like the Holy Grail:
I have installed rEFInd 0.8.3 on my macmini3.1 (late 2009) and have verified that it works correctly: it intercepts the boot process and displays an icon for OSX, and ...

We have a Linux Server where our site is hosted. The server is a tomcat server and I want to access the logs located at /var/log/tomcat7.
I wanted to tail the logs of the remote server. First I did ...

I've installed Arch on my Macbook Pro, and I can't get it to boot. I removed the quiet flag from grub.cfg to figure out what's going on, but I can't find any pattern. Here are the last few lines of ...

I want to switch Control and Command modifier keys in GNOME / Debian Jessie, because I use a Macintosh laptop.
I have managed to get these changed via the TweakTool -> Typing panel, like this:
Ctrl ...

Last week my lab instructor started giving us introduction about linux and how to use CLI commands.
Anyway, he started insulting and joking about Mac OSX systems and how they are a joke systems. He ...

I'm having lots of problems with GDB; usually crashes and starts using 100% CPU until I kill the process using the activity monitor on the Mac (using Mavericks).
How do I remove GDB from my machine ...

I'm currently running Debian/Jessie on a MacBook Pro Retina 10,1 15" (early-2103). Everything is going well (ethernet, WiFi, retina, etc.) but I worry about its power consumption.
laptop-mode manages ...

My boss has a large computer (12-core, 4 HDD computer that we use for scientific computing) and he has all of the HDDs mirrored. Is it possible to change this to RAID 10 without data loss and without ...